T-Mobile's Father Day promotion yields highest activations ever?

We haven’t been able to independently confirm this one, but a T-Mobile tipster tells us that T-Mobile had the largest number of new activations on Saturday for their promotion. Every phone was free with new activation and 2 year agreement.

i did not get one.. i have the even more plus play and buy by phone outright

Janet Cumberland

Wasn’t the promo run on Saturday the 19th and not Friday the 18th?

Eddie

Me too. No contract for me :-)

Zach F

T-Mobile FTW.

Rdx

I have a few sources, and we dint notice anything unusual over the past 2 days for smartphones. Even on Amazon, if you go to the best selling phones, HD2/MyTouch 3G slide dont figure at the top. Your tipster might be a TMob PR Rep

David

Happy Fathers’ Day!

Big Papi

My wife is a manager at a T-Mo store and they reported their biggest net gain ever…the entire market she said did astronomical numbers

grrr

Happy father’s day B!!!

jeremy

commenters at tmonews.com are saying 110k yesterday…my wife works at tmo call center.. customer rep… she had to do crash course in activations and was activating lines part of the day.

Roman

Good for T-mobile, they needed something like this, hopefully this will be an annual event.

drew dogg

The most ever as in the history of tmo or over all carriers?

Kg

Congrats tmobile maybe ull move to 3rd place???? Sike

Kyle

It’s spelled “psych.”

Nick

actually, the way hes using it… its SIKE

The Robot Devil

Just because people dislike the comment doesn’t mean it’s not true.

=Mike=

Ditto on the Fathers Day comment

Sam Adams

T-mobile blows anus.

Bob Sakamano

Good for one weekend, until iPhone 4 hits. All those gross gains will be negated by the end of next weekend. Remember, iPhone historically draws 40% port-ins from competitors. Also, T-Mo won’t see much profitability from these gross gains this year due to the extra subsidy paid per handset. Desperate move by a desperate company.

mingkee

iphone is getting old now.
With such sucky data plans, it only annoys customers.

Danny

As a smaller company out of the big 4 the type of volume they received in store and the amount of single day net adds were impressive.

I give them credit for that.

Most stores reported between 100 and 120 postpaid net adds on Saturday alone. These totals don’t include Radio Shack numbers.

Great deal for families. Kudos to T-Mobile for providing customers with this type of event.

Don’t expect free phones every weekend just because you have been a customer for XXXX amount of years.

You use the service that you pay for.

Try whining to your local gas station or electric company that they should give you free service because you’ve been a customer for a year.

Only in the wireless industry do customers expect free gifts as a token of gesture.

Peter

Isn’t that basic consumer technology protocol these days though? As soon as you buy a phone, another better one comes out. Same for every other market.

mingkee

And poor YOU.

TMobile User

haha Biscuit Master, that’s where you’re wrong… I have been with T-Mobile EVER since i got my first cell phone. Now I’m on the best service plan they offer, and my service is great, maybe you’re just not that good of a customer, and PLUS, their phones are better than that of AT&T’s, AT&T only beats them because of the iPhone, and stop playing like you don’t know that…

Bob Sakamano

ATTWS back in 2004 has the same types of “sales tactics” trying to pad their subscriber base prior to their acquisition by Cingular. Big props to the cell phone vending machines in T-Mo retail; you gave away the farm really well!

Guarddogg

T mobil, the best place for jailbroken & unlocked iPhones I hear.

Luke

When I drove by the local T-Mobile store there was a line out the door with at least 20 people in the outside line. I imagine the inside was packed as well.

Taron

Got a new new myTouch Slide (black) for me and a red one for my wife.

We bit the bullet and ported our lines from Sprint. Must say that T-Mobile has better voice quality here in Long Beach than Sprint does and their internet is much faster too.

We’re new to Android and loving what we can do with these phones.

Kyle

I guess you didn’t hear about the EVO or Galaxy S on Sprint.

TMobile User

YAY Taron!!! That is soo great!! I got myself a new myTouch slide that’s black too!!

tino72

I wonder how long before t-mobile even sees a profit for this. Giving away free phones and practically free service there plans are so low I hope they are making the right decision. If these are new subs indeed good for them on the successful day.

Sharquawnda@SprintPOS

Don’t be silly, $30 data plans on each phone sold, they’ll make that subsidy up real quick. Let’s not forget the fact that they pay way less than what they price for retail on these phones.

tino72

I follow tmobile so little do they make everyone with a smart phone sign a 30.00 data plan? i wasnt sure..

mingkee

Are you out of internet for years?
ALL smartphones require various smartphone internet (aka web2go premium).
$30 x 24 months = $720, this is enough to buy 2x CLIQ XT!

Sharquawnda@SprintPOS

I mean to say each smartphone but you guys got my drift.. I’m sure people we’re snatching up the myTouch Slide and the Garminfone is sold out at 2 T-Mobile locations.

Sonya

I would think so. Every phone free? You damn right they broke they broke their activations record.

mingkee

The store rep told me that they were busy like hell yesterday when I showed him my new nexus one.
Indeed, nexus one is way too much for getting it for free with 2 years.

Detroit

What is with all of this T-mobile news? No one cares about them.

JoshD4

@insomnia,

you can’t send mms on Att without being able to connect to the Internet either.